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BalletX's Fall Series
Real life in dance? Well, why not?
BalletX founders Matthew Neenan and Christine Cox started with a dream of pursuing the new and the different in movement. Their extraordinary Fall Series demonstrated that they're not only changing dance, but also changing people's lives in the process.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Russian Suite'
Big names, hard work, dazzling technique... But what does it mean?
Are celebrity artists really the answer for the future of ballet? This performance by the former Bolshoi icon Alexei Ratmansky offered too much of the ballet confection that's immediately pleasing to the taste of audiences, and little of substance or meaning.
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"Two Hands' at Annenberg
Magical moments
Two Far East expatriates now based in Philadelphia— the Chinese puppeteer Hua Hua Zhang and the Indonesian choreographer Kun-Yang Lin— joined forces for a program that was enthralling from beginning to end.
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Thirdbird's "Seen & Heard'
Things are tough all over
In “Seen & Heard,” choreographers revealed their disequilibrium with the chaos of the world, exposed the conventions of human relationships and uncovered the life of a dancer who's compelled to connect with his audience.
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"Traces': Dazzling spectacle from 7 Fingers
Something completely different (and without a safety net)
The brilliant dancer/acrobats of 7 Fingers seek a new form of performing art. Their Traces— part circus act, part dance theater, part cabaret— is a dizzying, dazzling spectacle that defies definition.
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John Jasperse's "Canyon' at the Fringe Festival
Confronting the inexplicable
John Jasperse's unorthodox Canyon seeks to alter the way we view performance, not to mention our states of consciousness. He jars our expectations of experience and reality, especially in temples of art on avenues of the arts.
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Headlong Dance Theater's "Red Rovers'
None dare call it dance
In Red Rovers, Headlong Dance Theater once again comes up with a clever setup that leads nowhere. And would it kill them to do a little more dancing?
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"Dancing Dead' by Brian Sanders
Waiting for Sanders to evolve
In Dancing Dead, choreographer Brian Sanders has developed a brilliant and original concept. Still, if you've seen one Sanders piece, you've seen the limits of his movement vocabulary.
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Parkour: Daredevil movement at the Fringe
Somersault across a dumpster? Welcome to the urban world of Parkour
Dancers who leap off tenement rooftops and parking garages? Don't laugh. Hip-hop transformed dance a generation ago; the new movement style called Parkour may yet do the same.
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BalletX Summer Series (2nd review)
Night of the dense metaphors
Where Roger Jeffrey employed dance to explore dense metaphors concerning individuals and crowds, Amy Seiwert displayed dance at its most powerful for distilling the essence of remembered pain.
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